Bluing-stick.



PATENTBD SEPT. 13, 1904.

L. N. IUPPENLATZ.

BLUING' STICK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2a, 1903.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 13, 1904..

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS N. IUPPENLATZ, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO WILLIAM L. IUPPENLATZ, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BLUING-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part or Letters Patent No. 769,800, dated September 13, 1904. Application filed NovemlierZB, 190s. Seria1No.l82,226. Nomodeli 1'0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs N. IUPPENLATZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bluing-Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my said invention is to provide a means by which a laundress or other person. may easily, quickly, and accurately distribute the bluing or coloringmatter in a vessel of water.

It consists of a suitable implement for the purpose, and this implement as I prefer to make it embodies a perforated receptacle having a suitable handle, a bluing or color bag contained within the receptacle, means for keeping the bag distended and holding the same in place, and means for breaking up the balls or lumps of bluing or coloring material.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying my said invention; Fig. 2, a view of the same, on an enlarged scale, with a portion of the handle omitted and also with a portion of the side of the casing broken away to show the parts within the chamber; Fig. 3, a central longitudinal sectional view of the same parts shown in Fig. 2; and Figs. 4 and 5, transverse sectional views at the points indicated by the dotted lines 4 4 and 5 5, respectively.

This implement consists, generally speaking, of a preferably cylindrical casing 21, having a suitable handle 22, generally formed in piece therewith, although, of course, it may be formed separately, if desired. This casing forms the outer wall of a suitable chamber the sides of which contain numerous perforations, as shown, the bottom end joining onto the handle and the outer end being provided with a closing means, as a stopper 23. At a point within the chamber, as at 24:, a shoulder is formed. An open ring 25, having a flange, will rest upon this shoulder when in place, and said ring forms the open end of a coloring-material sack or bluing-bag 26, the

edges of which are stitched or otherwise secured to said ring. The bag is held distended by some suitable device, as a coiled spring 27 Within the bag I place a piece of metal or other hard substance 29, which as the implement is shaken about will serve to pulverize or break up the balls or lumps of bluing or other coloring material.

In the use for which this implement is principally designed the bluing-bag is first inserted within the chamber, as shown, and a suitable quantity of bluing placed therein. The breaker 29 is also placed in with the bluing. The stopper 23 is then inserted and the device is ready for use. In using this implement the laundress takes the implement by the handle and inserts the chambered end (containing the bluing-bag and bluing) into the water and moves it about until the required tinge is imparted thereto. This may be repeated at any time as may be required or desired and the coloring of the water thus increased or renewed. By this means the laundress is able to blue her water without delay or difficulty, very evenly, and without wasting the bluing or getting it on her hands.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, in a color-distributer, of a perforated chamber having a suitable handle, a color-bag adapted to be inserted within said chamber and provided with internal outwardly-pressing means for holding the same distended, and a stopper for closing the chamber after the bag and coloring-matter are inserted.

2. The combination, in a color-distributer, of a suitable chamber having perforated walls, a color-bag carried by a rigid open ring adapted to be inserted within said chamber, internal outwardly-pressing means for holding said bag distended, and means for'closing the chamber after the bag and coloring-matter are inserted.

8. The combination, in a color-distributer, of a suitable chamber having perforated sides, a color-bag having a rigid ring about its mouth adapted to be inserted within said chamber, a distending means within said bag for holding the same distended, a shoulder within the chamber against which the ring at the mouth of the bag will come in contact, and a closer for the chamber.

4. The combination, in a color-distributer, of a suitable chamber having perforated sides and asuitable handle, a color bag adapted tobe inserted within said chamber, means for holding said bag distended, a loose piece of hard material within said bag whereby the coloring material is broken up when the implement is shaken, and means for closing the chamber containing the color-bag the coloring-matter and said breaking means.

5. The combination, in a color-distributer, of a suitable chamber having perforated walls LOUIS N. IUPPENLATZ. [L. s.]

Witnesses CHESTER BR'A-DTORD, JAMES A. WALSH. 

